Innovair Group

Innovair Group’s commercial segment includes Innovair Industrial and Innovair Automation. Innovair Industrial helps businesses and organizations become more efficient through gas application solutions, gas delivery and fulfillment, as well as welding and cutting equipment and supplies. Innovair Automation is a pioneer of robotic solutions to streamline industrial processes and improve productivity.

Our healthcare solutions support the well-being of patients with respiratory disorders across Canada. Innovair Medical and Medigas Manitoba provide medical gas, equipment, therapies and supplies, as well as non-gas medical products and supplies for EMS, hospital and homecare use.  

Our Vision

Inspired people delivering healthy and productive solutions for all.

Our History

Now led by the third generation of our founding family, we are Canada’s largest independent producer and supplier of industrial gases.  In 1936, Wilf Cockshott started selling acetylene gas to welders at Garry Battery and Radiator Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Welders Supplies came into being ten years later, starting with three people and a truck.   A new branch opened in Brandon in 1956, and another in Thompson in 1970. Medigas Manitoba, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Innovair Group, was established in 1976 to serve hospitals, clinics and respiratory patients in Manitoba. In 1984, a 30,000 square-foot facility was built as the new home for Welders Supplies and Medigas. In 2005, we became the first independent distributor of industrial gases to offer Microbulk Gas Delivery in Western Canada. We started using the name Innovair in 2014, a name that embodies our innovative approach to supplying and distributing industrial and medical gases.  Today, Innovair Group is comprised of four businesses: Innovair Industrial (formerly Welders Supplies), Innovair Automation, Medigas Manitoba and Innovair Medical. With nearly 100 employees, thousands of compressed gas cylinders in circulation and a fleet of specialized delivery equipment, we are able to supply industrial and medical gases and related equipment to industrial and healthcare facilities, municipalities and patients across Canada.  

Why Choose Innovair?

• We’re large enough to offer reliable supply and deep expertise, yet small enough to respond flexibly to new technologies, modes of delivery and specific requirements.
• As Canada’s largest independent provider of industrial gas products, we offer supply, delivery and support for a wide range of industrial and medical gases, equipment and technologies.
• We can help you identify and solve business challenges through solutions that use gas products for a wide range of industrial, municipal and emerging technologies and applications.
• Our comprehensive safety protocols protect the public, our customers and ourselves. All of our safety systems adhere to global standards and provide sound guidelines for the use, storage and transportation of industrial gas products.
• Customers and solutions always come before products and prices, so you’ll get the best result, whether it’s for an application solution, piece of equipment, technology or delivery system.